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Cloning large partitioned disk to SSD - only C and recovery

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I have a new ASUS G75 with a 750 GB primary disk. It has C (system-280GB of which approx 105 GB used) and a D (data - 395 GB empty) partitions plus a "hidden" recovery partition (25 GB). I want to install a 256 GB SSD and clone the system and recovery partitions and forget about the D (data) partition. Is there a smart way to do that? Or should I choose automatic and then just delete the D-partition afterwards?
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Your system partition may not be the current boot partition. Examine Disk Management. If you want advice, take a screenshot of it and post here. Please post as a normal image file, not embedded in a Word document.

Follow the instructions below.

- Use Windows disk management to verify where is the active partition on the system disk (right click on the computer icon on your desktop, choose manage, storage, disk management).

- Print a screen shot of the disk management console for future reference,

- Uninstall any program and move any content off C:\ you don't want to see on your SSD (eg: games, ). Leave the Windows page files, temp folders and other various indexes on C:\

- Do a full backup of your current disk on a big enough USB disk. Include all partitions, even the hidden ones (no need to use the sector by sector setting)

- Put your SSD at the same spot at your current disk. Remove your current disk from the computer for the time being.

- Boot your computer on the Acronis recovery CD

- Restore each partition at a time in the same order they were laid out (use your screen shot). This will allow to control resizing and offset to align the disk

- Leave a 1MB space before the first partition (the small recovery one). Do not resize it. Its size should be a whole number of MB.

- Mark the correct partition active

- Leave the drive letter change option alone

- Do not resize any partition except the C:\system partition

- No need to reboot inbetween partition restores

- After the last partition, restore the MBR+track0 and the disk signature

That's it.

Reboot on your new SSD. Then, if you want to use your old disk, put it back in the computer, reboot. Delete whatever you want, etc.

You have some tweaks to optimize your SSD:
- disable automatic defragmentation of that disk,
- disable superfetch service, leave prefetch
- leave the page file on the SSD
- verify that TRIM is activated http://www.ghacks.net/2010/09/14/verify-that-trim-is-enabled-in-windows…